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Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac (2002, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100375759077

ISBN-139780375759079

eBay Product ID (ePID)1982766

Product Key Features

Book TitleCousin Bette

Number of Pages496 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Classics, Literary

Publication Year2002

GenreFiction

AuthorHonoré de Balzac

Book SeriesModern Library Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight14.6 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-051209

Reviews"Raine's translations restore Balzac to his passionate and efficient outrage upon the expectations of fiction. This best of his novels is worthy to be 'ours'-and now it is." -Richard Howard, "Raine's translations restore Balzac to his passionate and efficient outrage upon the expectations of fiction. This best of his novels is worthy to be 'ours'-and now it is." - Richard Howard

Synopsis"Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying," wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac's La Com die Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully turning their selfish obsessions against them. The novel exemplifies what Henry James described as Balzac's "huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality.", "Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying," wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac's La Comedie Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully turning their selfish obsessions against them. The novel exemplifies what Henry James described as Balzac's "huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring love of reality."

LC Classification NumberPQ2165.C5E5 2002